Kind-hearted builders have chipped in with their own money to buy a playhouse for a disabled seven-year-old girl.

The team from Sutton Building and Renovations are currently doing work at the Loggerheads home of Bernadette Speers, whose daughter Aimee-Leigh Groves has a rare condition that means she can’t walk unaided.

The extension, funded by a disability grant and Aspire Housing, will house a new bedroom for Aimee-Leigh, as well as a wet room, which will save her mother from having to carry her upstairs.

Now the youngster has touched the hearts of the builders, who have clubbed together to get a playhouse for the back garden.

Forty-eight-year-old Bernadette, who provides round-the-clock care for her daughter, said: “I was over the moon when they told me. I’m overwhelmed by their kindness. They didn’t have to do that at all.

“This is their hard-earned money and time. It will have a massive impact on her life and she is so happy with it.

“She never wants to come out of it and she feels grown up having a little house to herself.”

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There is currently a £20,000 fund-raising effort to get Aimee-Leigh to the U.S. where experts at Baltimore’s world-renowned Johns Hopkins Hospital may be able to diagnose her rare condition, which is similar to cerebral palsy.

Aimee-Leigh is due to go into hospital this week to have casts put on both of her legs as she is now struggling to walk without a wheelchair, but her mum believes the thought of coming back home to the playhouse will help Aimee-Leigh get through it.

Colin Sutton, owner of Sutton Building and Renovations, is pictured with foreman and joiner Des Morris and Aimee-Leigh Groves

Baldwins Gate Primary School pupil Aimee-Leigh added: “The playhouse is very good. The builders have been very kind. It’s amazing.”

Sutton Buildingand Renovations has installed rails in the playhouse, as well as plug sockets so Aimee-Leigh can watch TV in there is she wishes.